Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 29/09/2026I finished up the forest beast last night. Took a lot of revisions, but I’m really happy with it! Please, please make it through the bisque firing, my friend. 515526
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 12/09/2026Tree progress. I’ll have to worry less about them being mistaken for broccoli, more about being mistaken for morels. It might improve once the trunks are drier and I can add detail and more branches. 1290
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 12/09/2026Making good progress with test trees. The next step is to take them all off again and make the final ones. And cut the mouth and attach the tail 18411
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 07/09/2026I had a tire debead (an exciting flat) in the middle of a run. Got off course, we swapped the wheel out in under 3 minutes, then went back to the start. Reran the run for my best time of the morning! 1101
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 07/09/2026We podiumed! @benhollis.net in second and myself in third. Such a solid weekend! 2100
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 01/09/2026I’m making good progress on this dude. I’ll have to sculpt the little friend next. 723733
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 21/08/2026I have a half-done sculpture waiting for me at home, but I’ve spent all day organizing wood storage up at the kiln. It’s so satisfying, and I can’t wait for the first firing of the season! 1240
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 19/08/2026It’s so hot today, but I’m thinking ahead to fall. We’ll be wood firing as soon as the burn ban is lifted. I love this weirdo beast I’ve started for that firing. 3602
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 23/07/2026The third event is WHEEEEEEEEE. I’ll be driving the Blue Bean at Rallycross Fest. It’s Saturday and Sun, two full days of watching folks hoon around some dirt/ gravel tracks. Also, it’s at Dirtfish, which is also where they filmed part of Twin Peaks. www.nwrallyassociation.com/spectator-ev... 0110
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 23/07/2026The second is cultural. It’s the annual Seattle Art Fair. I’ll be there for the grand opening tonight with J. Rinehart Gallery. Come see this giant baby beast! The fair is tonight - Sunday, down at Lumen Field. 15911
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 16/07/2026I’d had the phone out because we found an incredible mouse nest after moving some lumber. There was a stray little pup, with eyes still closed, perhaps dropped by a startled mom mid move. I shepherded it back to its siblings, gently covered the nest with a piece of bark, then washed my hands. 0171
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 16/07/2026I put my phone in my pocket with the camera on, and actually got some cool photos. 1492
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 29/06/2026My feed served up a surprise doppelgänger for the owl friend this morning. 010
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 19/06/2026One last Ozette post: one of our favorite pieces of art in our house is this metaphorical portrait of Ozette by the amazing @pamwishbow.bsky.social. Pam took our brief, and gleefully returned with this perfect painting of a demon queen, just and vengeful ruler of all she can see. 0322
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 18/06/2026She got meaner since that comic. She’d chase pet sitters straight out of the house. She’d trap visiting friends in the bathroom - we told people to bring their phones so they could text for help. But she’s remained our darling. She’d endlessly demand to be held and bounced like a baby by Ben 3380
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 18/06/2026She gave @shing.bsky.social such a stink eye when they visited, that it was memorialized in a comic. 1360
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 18/06/2026We’re saying goodbye to our sweet cat Ozette today, after nearly two decades. She’s the sweetest, softest, meanest beast ever, and definitely appears in my sculptures. 121253
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 25/05/2026The repair held up great!! My friend and I both podiumed at the NW Rally Assoc. women’s clinic this weekend. To be fair, we were the only two in the stock front wheel drive class. But also, to be fair, we were fast. We beat the whole stock RWD class too! Photos by @benhollis 0231
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 19/05/2026This was the process! 1: The original damage. I clipped it with a car trailer while loading it for rally cross. 2. Plastic weld staples from the back 3. JB bumper weld epoxy (which has some flex) 4. Two coasts special gold leaf primer (in red) 5. 23k gold leaf ($10 worth) 6. Automotive clear coat 2212
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 14/04/2026We wrapped up the firing yesterday after 50 hours. We then controlled the amount of oxygen in the kiln as it cooled - reduction cooling. This should give us really nice colors in all of the clays. It also produces dramatic flames. We won’t find out until we open it next week after it’s all cool! 0131
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 14/04/2026We had a crew of about six this firing, all working 8 hour shifts with two people. After my shift, I stuck around and “supervised” the next shift for a bit. 1150
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 14/04/2026The next 24 hours, after body reduction, is about keeping the kiln full of wood, happy, and not too hot. We put small pieces of wood in side fireboxes (getting ash throughout the kiln). The front firebox gets large chunks. We use about two cords of larger wood and one cord of kindling every time 190
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 14/04/2026As I woke up the next morning, I spotted the graveyard crew hard at work. “Body reduction” is where you starve the kiln of o2 at a lower temp for 30 min. The result is toastier looking pots, and also lots of flames and smoke for a little bit. 1130
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 14/04/2026We generally load in one day, then start it the next morning. We’ll slowly heat the kiln (aka candling), bring up the temp gradually to not shock the work. We’ve been experimenting with using a propane burner for the first couple hours. After that, we switched to our standard “campfire”. 2190
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 14/04/2026Just wrapped up the 9th firing of my wood kiln. It went super smooth! Here’s some highlights of the last 50 hours. First off: loading. 2867
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 02/04/2026If you’re in Seattle, my solo show will be opening this Thursday night from 5-8pm! Come say hi at the J Rinehart Gallery in pioneer square. 18652107
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 20/03/2026I need to start new sculptures, but instead I deep cleaned my studio and organized my tools. Behold! 4594
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 18/03/2026Presenting the final sculpture!! It’s hilarious to be able to look back to my first sketch and track the progress of this beast. My instinct is was right. A pain to sculpt, but worth it! It’s titled “Storyteller”, and will be part of my solo show at J. Rinehart Gallery, opening April 2nd. 14320115
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 18/03/2026I built a wood hutch for the side stoke wood at the kiln. Super satisfying to make an improvement in a few hours that I’d been considering for months. 0510
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 13/03/2026You never know what you’ll get out of a wood kiln. All of this color and pattern on this sculpture is just wood ash melting into a natural glaze during a firing. I know the process well enough that I can *ask* the kiln for certain results. But you never know until the unload what you’ll get. 0623
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 13/03/2026I’m so excited with my work from this last wood firing! This sculpture, “Squish”, is going to be part of my solo show opening on April 2nd at J. Rinehart Gallery in Seattle. 6578147
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 25/02/2026The colors of the firing were great! And I didn’t lose a single beast. We went a bit hard on the reduction cool, which bubbled some of the natural ash glazes 4728
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 19/02/2026After reloading and restarting the wood firing, it went super smooth. We wrapped it up in 48 hours, with cone 11’s everywhere in kiln. I woke up for my shift on Tuesday to find an unexpected 3” of snow on everything! 0363
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 17/02/2026This morning, in four short hours, we carefully placed all the sooty pots back into the kiln. There were marks from the feet of each pot, showing where it was before. We kept joking that it was a kiln so nice, we loaded it twice. It’s now running nicely, almost back to where it was before. 0531
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 17/02/2026So… the wood firing’s been spicy. A giant refired pot exploded at 700f, hour 10 during the firing. The crew heard it go. We peaked, and shards of pot were *everywhere*. We had no real option. We shut it down and unloaded the work. Any pot fired with a shard in it would be ruined. 3500
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 15/02/2026Starting off the morning by lighting the Cloud kiln for its 8th firing. We loaded it up yesterday, with the help of a full crew! 0551
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 11/02/2026I’ve bisqued half my beasts for the firing, about to start the other half going. My studio is running out of space! 31319
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 07/02/2026It’s also a surprising ingredient in these delicious candies. Hadn’t stopped me from buying them, though. 030
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 05/02/2026This was the original sketch. I’m amused at how accurate it ended up being, for a handful of scribbles. 0522
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 05/02/2026I didn’t share any of the progress on this one, but turns out I was right. It was a big pain to sculpt, but dang, I’m happy with it. 15466111
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 05/02/2026Had a night in, finished a giant sculpture, and took a nice bath. One week until my last bisque firing before the wood firing! 318326
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 27/01/2026I was letting myself get way too stressed, then I looked out my studio window and spotted the world’s largest carrot, forgotten for months. 2462
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 21/01/2026Another beast ready for the bisque kiln! It’s a bit more than three weeks before my wood firing. It’s the final stretch! I still have a lot I want to sculpt between now and then. 015720
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 14/01/2026Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers. 3102
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 13/01/2026I have sculpted long ears before, though not often. This is from 2023 172
Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 13/01/2026I did finish up my first sculpture of 2026. Some times I can only help things by bringing joy to folks. So have a squish of beasts! 513964875
